land use Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

What’s driving Lesser Kestrel declines despite conservation efforts?

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-03-07T11:03:28+00:0022 Feb 2024|Conservation, land use, nest-site availability, population decline, protected areas|

Reduced availability of prey and nesting sites may explain recent population declines

Avoiding power lines

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-09-17T12:30:59+00:007 Sep 2023|bird-human interactions, breeding biology, Disturbance, land use, waterbirds|

The density of breeding birds increases with distance from electric power lines.

Global threats to grassland birds

By Christa Beckmann|2023-06-13T13:48:33+00:0019 Jun 2023|agriculture, biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, cerrado, climate change, grassland, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, land use|

What are the main threats to declining grassland birds?

The not-so-separate niches of spotted eagles

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-06-15T07:09:30+00:0015 Jun 2023|agriculture, competition, diet, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, niche overlap|

Drainage of wetlands might lead to the collapse of niche differentiation.

Which habitats do birds prefer?

By Da-li Lin|2023-02-15T13:59:41+00:0020 Feb 2023|behaviour, bird communities, distribution, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Farmland birds, forest birds, habitat, habitat selection, IBIS, land use, modelling, population structure, volunteers|

A comparison of habitat preference assessment methods

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-03T13:06:43+00:005 May 2022|agriculture, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird movements, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, movement, overwintering, plastics, pollution, remote sensing, tracking, water quality|

Human activities determine the daily schedule of overwintering birds in Spain.

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

By Inmaculada Abril-Colón|2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

On the hunt for winter sun

By Connor Panter|2022-01-31T19:27:21+00:003 Feb 2022|behaviour, bird movements, birds of prey, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, foraging resource limitation, gps tags, habitat selection, illegal killing, land management, land use, migrant, mortality, movements, overwintering, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, winter|

Exploring drivers of Red Kite space use in winter

What future for the British uplands?

By Alistair Crowle|2022-01-19T17:17:47+00:0020 Jan 2022|agriculture, EU, funding, game bird, habitat, habitat degradation, IBIS, land management, land use, legislation, moorland, People, red grouse, upland birds|

Are moorlands destined to be tree and sheep covered or are there alternatives

Is tourism ruining the tundra?

By Avery Meeker|2022-01-04T17:09:03+00:003 Jan 2022|bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, land use, occupancy, road traffic, Tundra|

How increasing tourism, hiking, and road activity fuelled by relaxed resource management has led to species loss in America’s greatest wilderness